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SGABBARD. 7

No. 580.634. Patented Apr. 13, 1897;

. cr0ss-section thereof.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS BANNERMAN AND JOHN \V. AYERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,

. ASSIGNORS TO SAID BANNERMAN.

SCABBARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,634, dated April 13, 1897.

Application filed September 19, 1894. Serial No. 523,465. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

, Be it known that we, FRANCIS BANNERMAN and JOHN W. AYERS, citizens of the United States, and residents of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scabbards, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the construction of scabbards for bayonets, swords, or other articles of a similar nature; and it consists in the employment of a seamless drawn-metal tube as a body, the said tube being closed at one end, as by means of brazing, and left open at the other end, where it is flared and beaded for the dual purpose of facilitating the introduction of the bayonet or other article thereinto and securing to the Scabbard theleather throg or Scabbard-supporting strap without the use of rivets or other extraneous fasten- 1ngs.

Our invention consists also in certain novel features of construction as to afriction-spring within the scabbard, the whole being more fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 represents a side view of the scabbard embodying our invention. Fig. II represents a 1011- gitudinal section thereof, omitting the bayonet holding spring. Fig. III represents a Fig. 1V represents a partial side View and a partial longitudinal section of the tube composing the body of the scabbard. Fig. V represents a longitudinal section of the upper portion of the scabbard, including the friction-spring and the combined rivet and button constituting a fastening therefor.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts.

The letter A indicates the body of the scabbard, which, as shown, is composed entirely of a seamless metal tube which is drawn into the required shape, the metal usually employed being steel or brass. The shape of this tube is made to conform to the cross-section of the article which is intended to be introduced therein, and in this example it is semielliptical to accommodate a bayonet or sword of that shape.

When the scabbard is used for a bayonet, it

is generallysupported on the person by means of a leather strap B commonly known as a throg,.and in order to hold this strap in position as against displacement in either direction on the scabbard the tube A is bent or folded over upon itself and upon the strap at the open end of the scabbard to form a bead O, engaging the strap that is to say, the edge of the bead is forced into and penetrates the leather throg, so as to firmly connect the throg to the tube without the use of other or extraneous fastenings for this purpose. The tube A has an abrupt outward bend, or, in other words, is flared at its open end, so as to bring such end out of the plane of the remainder of the tube, thereby producing a comparatively wide mouth, with the effect of facilitating the introduction of the desired article thereinto, the said bead being of course at the extremity of the flared end.

In forming the scabbard We take a plain seamless metal tubesuch as, for example, that illustrated in Fig. IVand by the action of suitable dies impart thereto the general shape of the scabbard, as shown in the remainin g figures, which is, in this example, that of a semiellipse or triangle, the tube being closed at one end, as by brazing, left open at the other end, and simultaneously flared and beaded at the open-or month end, the throg having previously been put in place.

At a point near the open end of the scabbard and within the same is a spring D, the purpose of which is to act on the bayonet or other article inserted in the scabbard by frictional contact to hold the same against endwise displacement therein. This frictionspring D is secured by means of the rivet e, which is combined with a button f to engage with a strap for supporting the scabbard, this strap having a suitable buttonhole to receive the button. The rivet e, which constitutes the shank of the combined rivet and button, passes through the body A of the scabbard and the spring D, and the head forming the button f is exterior of the scabbard.

It will be apparent that by our invention we are enabled to produce a superior article at a comparatively low cost of manufacture.

That we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a soabbard the body of which is composed of a seamless drawn-metal tube closed at one end, flared at the other or open end and provided at said open end with an outwardly-turned bead, of a leather throg, which is fitted on said tube adjaeent to its open end and so as-to engage with the bead, as specified, for permanently uniting the throg to the Scabbard, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, in a Scabbard, of the body formed integral of a seamless metal tube, which is closed at one end, open at the other end, and flared and beaded at said open upper end, the leather throg having the edge of the I5 bead forced into so as to engage the same, the friction-spring Within the Scabbard, and the immovable rivet passing through the body of the Scabbard and the spring, for securing the latter, and provided With the head or button 20 exterior of the Scabbard, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

FRANCIS BANNERHAN. JOHN W. AYERS.

Witnesses:

CHARLES G. COE, CHAS. WVAHLERs. 

